User talk:Scray

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Hello, Scray, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Saying hello

Hi Scray, we seem to share an interest in hepatitis/hepatitis viruses so I thought it might be a good idea say hello. I'm constantly planning to do more work on Hepatitis B virus but finding the time is a problem. I would be interested in your opinions of the serological responses graphs that I produced, (and any other ideas). Do you think they are intelligible to a lay reader? Best wishes, Graham. --GrahamColmTalk 15:19, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi GrahamColm, and thanks for dropping by to say hello. I have found your contributions extremely helpful, in content and in tone, as I learn to edit WP. Congrats on your recent inclusion on the FA team - a well-earned distinction (and those always come with plenty of work, don't they?).
Regarding Hepatitis B virus serologies, and in particular the images on your user page, I left a couple of specific comments on Image talk:Chronic HBV v2.png. In general I like HBV serological curves because they are familiar, I like graphs, and I am very visual, but I found them daunting when I was in school and in teaching about this I have found that HBV newbies can digest tables of "+" and "-" more easily. The transitions between well-defined states are missing from such tables, but those are generally brief and hard to interpret anyway, except in retrospect. It now occurs to me that we could also use a flowchart, which would convey the same information but could also help people understand that people can move back-and-forth between states, particular when immuno-active.
Please feel free to help me with WP etiquette, as I'm not sure whether I should be responding here or on your talk page.Scray (talk) 17:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Scray, it's completely up to you where you respond. I like to keep conversations together so here is good for me. You right about the (+) and (-), they do not convey the sense of progression that I wanted to capture. Perhaps they would be better for this article? The flow chart is a very good idea indeed. I'm not sure what you mean about back and forth between states, I never seen this, but one has to be very careful around here about neutrality ;-). Any help with these figures and any of the other articles would be much appreciated as is your constant help with fending off the vandals. Lastly please call me Graham as do the others, it's nice because it's my real name. Thanks for responding. I'm glad we've met. Graham. GrahamColmTalk 17:25, 3 May 2008 (UTC)